Ranking Each MLB Team's Softest Player

All that MLB fans want to see their favorite players do are the jobs they get paid to do.

For some players, that can be a tough chore since they have trouble staying on the field due to injuries.

Each team has that one player who makes fans cringe every time a ball is hit his way in fear that he may get injured once again.

So who are the softies in baseball?

Here's a look at the softest players in Major League Baseball, using one player from each team.

Note: As some have pointed out, the word "soft" is being used in conjunction with injury-prone. Also note that there has been a minor adjustments for the Orioles after much debate and discussion. Who was the change and where is he now? Click through to find out.

18. New York Mets: David Wright

David Wright has had a strong of bad luck over the last few years with the New York Mets.

He suffered a concussion in mid-August of 2009 and missed a good portion of time due to post-concussion symptoms.

Wright also spent two months on the disabled list in 2011 with a stress fracture in his lower back.

While he hasn't had a history of injuries, he's someone the Mets can't afford to have injured. Another injury to him might cause Mets fans to groan the same way Braves fans groaned every time Chipper Jones got hurt.

12. Kansas City Royals: Chris Getz

Since Chris Getz was traded to the Kansas City Royals in 2009, his career has been riddled with injuries.

In 2010, he only played in 72 games after suffering a strained oblique muscle and then suffering a concussion later in the year after getting hit in the head with a baseball.

The next year was a little better, as he appeared in 118 games, but in 2012 Getz went to the disabled list three times. He bruised his ribcage in May, had a lateral strain in his left leg in June and broke his left thumb in August.

7. Minnesota Twins: Justin Morneau

Justin Morneau is another player who has suffered tough luck over the course of his career.

Late in 2009, Morneau was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his back which caused him to miss the end of the regular season and the playoffs.

Then in 2010, he sustained a concussion before the All-Star break and wasn't the same for the next two years. He missed the rest of the 2010 season, but then had neck surgery in 2011 to relieve pinched nerves.

Thankfully for the Minnesota Twins, Morneau has relatively healthy since then. But you always worry about a player who has been through as much as he has in a short amount of time.

5. Seattle Mariners: Franklin Gutierrez

This year, it was a strained right hamstring in late April. In 2010, it was a stomach virus, while 2009 saw him deal with knee tendinitis.

As Seattle Times writer Geoff Baker says, Gutierrez is starting to affect the players around him.

Gutierrez's health issues are now impacting other Mariners players, coaches and front office personnel in a 2013 season off to the worst start possible. His inability to play has exposed the risks taken in several roster decisions, caused the Mariners to use some veterans far more than they wanted and could eventually start costing people their jobs.

And that's why, as sympathetic as some are to Gutierrez's health plight, they remain equally frustrated by it as well.

Simply put, Gutierrez can't stay healthy and it may be time for the Mariners to part ways with him.

3. Los Angeles Dodgers: Hanley Ramirez

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All you have to do is see what Hanley Ramirez has done this year and you'll see why he's this high on the list.

Han-Ram tore a thumb ligament in the championship game of the World Baseball Classic. Then, three days after returning from the DL for the Los Angeles Dodgers, he suffered a hamstring injury running the bases.

Sadly, most of us could see it coming, especially considering he has a history of injuries. He dislocated his right shoulder in 2007, injured his elbow and shoulder in 2010 and injured his shoulder once again in 2011.

1. New York Yankees: Alex Rodriguez

He's struggled to stay healthy since 2009, but could that be because he wasn't taking performance-enhancing drugs?

Rodriguez admitted in an interview in 2009 that he had used PEDs during his career, but it was only during a short time. Since then, he hasn't been the same Alex Rodriguez, which makes you wonder if he was taking drugs all along.

He averaged 120 games over the last four years due to various ailments, last year's being the best. He suffered from "Can't-Hit-the-Ball-itis," getting subbed for multiple times throughout the end of the season and the playoffs.

This year, he had surgery on his left hip, which is expected to sideline him until the All-Star break.